TAI'llMIU-: 4*> 



84. 2. 8. 10 (709, /). 



11. 11. !_!. 1. Skin, mounted, and skull. Brazil. 



Purchased (If. Ward), 1911. 



B. Tapirus terrestris laurillardi. 



Tapirus laurillardi, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 881, Cat. Car- 

 nivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 256, 1869, Hand-List Thick-skinned 

 Mamm. Brit. Mil*, p. 34, 1873. 



Tapirus americanus laurillardi, Hagmann, Archiv Passen- nnd 

 Gesell.-BioL vol. v, p. 24, 1908 (by inference from text). 



Typical locality Venezuela (?). 



52. 12. 9. 8. (709,0). Skull. Venezuela (?). Type. 



Purchased, (Brandt), 1852. 



C. Tapirus terrestris mexianae. 



Tapirus americanus var. mexianae, Hagmann, Arcliiv Hasscn- nnd 

 Gesell.-BioL vol. v, p. 22, 1908. 



Typical (and only) locality Mexiana Island, mouth of 

 the Amazons. 



Distinguished from typical race by contour of profile of 

 nasal region of skull, which lacks the marked depression at 

 the root of the nasals in the latter, and by differences in the 

 form and relations of some of the cranial bones ; bodily size 

 smaller. 



No specimen in collection. 



D. Tapirus terrestris speg-azzinii. 



Tapirus spegazzinii, Ameghino, Ann. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, vol. xx, 

 p. 31, 1909. 



Typical locality Tucuman, Argentina. 



Type in Buenos Aires Museum. 



Based on an immature skull, which differs from adult 

 skulls of the typical race by the much shorter and relatively 

 wider nasal bones. 



